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Wedding Keepsake

For the sake of simple and decluttered living, it does not make sense to pack a wedding gown that will never be seen again. Are there ways to make something from the dress that can be become a displayed momento of the day? Dare we consider creating something useful?

Re: Wedding Keepsake

With no one else to pass it on to ... I've seen wedding gowns repurposed into quilts, kerchiefs - that kind of thing.

We were just at a wedding this past weekend and the brides dress was passed down to her, it was her grandma's dress originally, her mother wore it and now she had it revamped into a shorter more modern dress. It was lovely.

Re: Wedding Keepsake

We were just at a wedding this past weekend and the brides dress was passed down to her, it was her grandma's dress originally, her mother wore it and now she had it revamped into a shorter more modern dress. It was lovely.

That is lovely! I have seen dresses re-made into baptism/christening gowns for babies and the veils into bonnets. For my "something old" for my wedding, I carried a handkerchief that my mother carried in her wedding. For baby girl's baptism, I folded it into a triangle and sewed satin ribbons on the corners for ties and she wore it as a little baptism cap.

I have my wedding dress packed away in a closet. After my wedding, as a gift to me, my mother had it sent to a special company that cleaned and preserved the dress and placed it in a special packaging. I had thought about selling it but now that I have a girl, I think I may keep it...for a while!

Since I was larger than my tiny, petite, 5'3" mother, I couldn't wear her dress...a banana yellow peasant-y dress perfect for her 1973 Colorado mountain wedding, LOL. My grandmother's dress (she was also teeny tiny) was a navy velvet from 1937.

My cousins all wore my aunt's veil. We will see if any of the granddaughters wear it.

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